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A -- COMPACT ENVIRONMENT ANOMALY SENSOR (CEASE) INTEGRATION & FLIGHT SU PPORT SOL PR FY71219503551 POC Iris M. Durden, Contracting Officer, 617-377-2907 Lt Skip Malcom, Contract Specialist, 617-377-5139 Dr. Donald Guidice, Technical Contact, 617-377-3989. R&D sources are sought in support of the Space Physics Division, Geophysics Directorate, Phillips Laboratory (PL/GPS) to provide engineering support of the integration (into its host satellite), on-board testing, launch, and early on-orbit operations for two Compact Environmental Anomaly Sensor (CEASE) experiment spaceflights. These R&D activities are a follow-on to the research, development and flight-unit fabrication and test of CEASE currently performed under Contract F19628-90-C-0159 with Amptek, Inc. of Bedford, MA. For two spaceflights of CEASE, the effort shall include, but not be limited to, the following: 1) Carry out all the documentation tasks to implement a spaceflight such as the Experiment Requirements Document (ERD), the Interface Control Document (ICD), and Flight Operations Requirements Document (FORD) based on knowledge of CEASE's instrument characteristics and flight demonstration requirements; 2) Support all payload-satellite information exchange meetings such as the Experimenters Working Group (EWG) meetings; 3) participate in all experiment integration and functional testing including correcting all CEASE deficiency discovered in, or caused by, the integration and testing; 4) participate in the host-satellite environmental testing (EMC/EMI, shock and vibration, extended thermal vacuum) including repair of any damage to the CEASE instrument that might result from such tests; 5) participate in various satellite mission rehearsals; 6) support early on-orbit operation of CEASE aboard its host satellite. This effort will require support at the host-satellite contractor's plant, the satellite environmental-test facility, the satellite launch facility, and the satellite mission control facility. Interested potential sources should respond by indicating their ability to meet the following screening criteria, all of equal importance. Demonstrate existing capability to: a) Provide the necessary inputs for the ERD, ICD, FORD and other required spaceflight documentation based on a thorough knowledge of the CEASE instrument, b) Support the EWG and other related meetings based on a knowledge of what is needed for experiment-satellite integration/launch cooperative efforts, c) Support the integration of the experiment into the host satellite and its on-board testing, including experience in fixing experiment deficiencies detected, d) Support host-satellite environmental testing, e) Repair damage to the flight instrument resulting from any environmental testing, f) Taking part in mission-operation rehearsals, including the ability to address simulated contingency operation scenarios, g)Plan and document early on-orbit operation of the flight experiment. Period of performance will be thirty-six (36) months beginning in the 2nd quarter of FY96, with the possibility of necessary extensions due to ''non-CEASE caused'' delays in satellite integration and launch. Offerors interested in documenting their capabilities to perform this work should reference Purchase Request FY71219503551 in responding to the Deputy for Small Business, Attn: ESC/BC, Mr. Alan Hart, 275 Randolph Road, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2818. Information on file at ESC/BC must be supplemented to document the capabilities in the above stated areas. Organizations not registered must submit complete qualifying information. Offerors should list persons from customer firms whom the Air force may contact to verify applicable work experience and performance. Firms should also indicate their status if qualified as socially or economically disadvantaged. Each offeror responding to this synopsis is requested to submit with its reply a name and telephone number for a point of contact. The Government will solicit those firms meeting the screening criteria in this synopsis. Organizations responding to this sources sought synopsis will not be notified as to whether or not they meet the screening criteria. Any offeror initially judged to be unqualified will be provided a copy of the solicitation upon request and any offer such a firm might submit will be evaluated without prejudice. An Ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors or potential offerors during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. The Ombudsman should only be contacted with issues or problems that have previously been brought to the attention of the program manager and/or the contracting officer and could not be satisfactorily resolved at that level. The Ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of proposals or in the source selection process. The Ombudsman is Col Claude E. Messamore, Jr., ESC/IG, (617) 377-5106. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes, does not constitute an IFB or RFP, and is not to be construed as a commitment by the government. Closing date submission of responses is thirty (30) days from the publication of this notice. See Numbered Note(s): 25. (0228)

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